my committee letter isnt going to be finished until sometime in august, will this delay application

[Eagleye2]

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Hello, I have been in touch with my school and they told me that since my pre med advisor and letter writer is on vacation til the end of july (seriously...) my committee letter wont be in until mid august. This is very frustrating because I worked hard and tried to submit my secondaries early to give myself the best shot possible to get in. But now that the committee letter isnt coming til mid august my early submission means nothing. My question is do most committee letters come in during August or is my case considered late?

 

[Catalystik]

Hello, I have been in touch with my school and they told me that since my pre med advisor and letter writer is on vacation til the end of july (seriously...) my committee letter wont be in until mid august. This is very frustrating because I worked hard and tried to submit my secondaries early to give myself the best shot possible to get in. But now that the committee letter isnt coming til mid august my early submission means nothing. My question is do most committee letters come in during August or is my case considered late?

Many come out in September. Adcomms are used to this timing.

 

[Eagleye2]

Many come out in September. Adcomms are used to this timing.

Thanks for your response, will they still delay looking at the application until the committee letter is in?

 

[Catalystik]

Thanks for your response, will they still delay looking at the application until the committee letter is in?

Some schools don't wait for LORs to show up. Others do. Sorry I can't be more reassuring, but being Complete at all schools before September 1 is still "On time" for applicants (aka "Not late") and you'll beat that by a few weeks.

 

[Eagleye2]

1) The AMCAS guidelines for processing assume committee letters will not arrive until after the start of the Fall term when faculty and staff return from summer break.
2) the vast majority of medical schools require, recommend, or prefer committee letters.
3) with 5,000-10,000 applications at any individual school and a finite capacity to evaluate and review perhaps several hundred a week at most it can a good 3 months or more to process them all. So your letters have plenty of time to get in.
4) so the Labor Day guideline to be early/on time at all programs including highly selective schools is to “get in line” to insure that you will be evaluated and reviewed by Thanksgiving.

This was very helpful thank you

 

[mindlight1]

1) The AMCAS guidelines for processing assume committee letters will not arrive until after the start of the Fall term when faculty and staff return from summer break.
2) the vast majority of medical schools require, recommend, or prefer committee letters.
3) with 5,000-10,000 applications at any individual school and a finite capacity to evaluate and review perhaps several hundred a week at most it can a good 3 months or more to process them all. So your letters have plenty of time to get in.
4) so the Labor Day guideline to be early/on time at all programs including highly selective schools is to “get in line” to insure that you will be evaluated and reviewed by Thanksgiving.

Yet, interviews are starting to be offered now (and not just from Texas schools). This makes it appear that the applicants whose committee letters traditionally go out in Aug/Sept are at a disadvantage to those whose committees get them in earlier. Are you saying that the med schools take this into account?